Sean Smallman wrote:
Agree with Gordon, don't think an Auction is in the spirit of this event, when and who decided on this direction ? if it was at the monthly meet it was an important enough decision that a ballot of all Tipec Southern members was sought, or at least an agenda published before this was decided .
However the only change I would make on the raffle would be an increase on the price to reduce the number of tickets, this would allow better mixing of the tickets and avoiding quite so many multiple prizes going to the same recipient.
I know this from expierience last year, there were physically too many tickets sold and very difficult to deal with. Increase the price , reduce the ticket numbers, If you sell as many as last year at the higher price, more to donate
I do think that if you have generated several hundred pounds worth of prizes on the back of raising money for a great cause you have to make sure that you get the best return possible for the support.
Agree on the Tickets a £2 each rather than a £1 a strip, I felt sorry for the girls last year.
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Lol...I was "one of the girls" last year who ripped out and folded all those tickets, but you are correct, there were too many by far....
The reason I won so many prizes was twofold....
1, When a raffle is for charity , I always buy a LOT of tickets....I bought £20 worth...which was 100 tickets, so not surprising I won a few
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2, I am generally lucky lol...apart from with politics
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I think £2 would be a little high per ticket and would put some off.....my personal opinion is maybe £1 per Ticket (not per strip)
The auction...still unsure about that...maybe a "blind" auction.....where you just bid for "a prize" and don`t discover what you have won until afterwards....but again maybe that will drop the bidding?????
All the best Brett
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